Dread
פַּ֫חַדStrong’s H6343pachad (pa-chad)
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pachad is the Hebrew word usually translated “dread of”, “dread your” and “from dread of”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.”
Meaning
- Terror, dreaddread · object of dread
How it's translated
- dread of 10
- dread your 4
- from dread of 4
- a fear 4
- dread 4
- fear 3
- terror 3
- and dread 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 10
- Psalms 8
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Proverbs 4
- Jeremiah 4
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
- Exodus 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
- Deuteronomy 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
- Deuteronomy 11:25There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
- Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- 1 Samuel 11:7And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פַּ֫חַד pachad · dread
1) terror, dread 1a) dread 1b) object of dread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DREAD, noun
Dred. [Latin, to dread; fearful; to tremble. The primary sense is probably to tremble, or to shrink.]
- Great fear, or apprehension of evil or danger.
- Awe; fear united with respect.
- Terror.“Shall not his dread fall on you” Job 13:11
- The cause of fear; the person or the thing dreaded.“Let him be your dread” Isaiah 8:13
All definitions and other forms of “dread”
DREAD, adjective
- Exciting great fear or apprehension.
- Terrible; frightful.
- Awful; venerable in the highest degree; as dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
DREAD, verb transitive
To fear in a great degree; as, to dread the approach of a storm.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.